Food served in children’s hospitals in the US state of California has been rated as largely unhealthy by a new study….

Wolters Kluwer Health’s ProVation electronic health record software has been selected by Northern California Surgery Center in the US. ProVation provides electronic documentation and document imaging for all elements of the patient encounter, from past records to procedure documentation and follow-up care. The software gives ambulatory surgery centres access to a single, patient-centric documentation...

Los Angeles –  The healthcare industry needs more and more professionals to serve the burgeoning Hispanic community and a California program is encouraging young Latinos to prepare for careers in the sector….

Healthcare facilities today face significant challenges when it comes to implementing environmentally sustainable building design. Because hospitals are 24/7 operations, it's often difficult to operate an energy-efficient hospital, while adhering to strict code requirements. Miller Children's Hospital Long Beach, one of four hospitals that make up the Southern California MemorialCare Health...

As an interior designer working on large projects for senior housing facilities for the past 20 years, I have been in a constant battle with manufacturers to produce products that meld the three most important criteria specifically needed for senior housing: aesthetics, code compliance, and durability. To date, products meeting all three criteria have been virtually nonexistent. In the past five years,...

Emissions from California’s construction and other off-road diesel equipment are less than 28% of what state officials have estimated, the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) recently announced. As a result, the AGC feels that the California Air Resources Board has no scientific justification for sticking to a new rule requiring construction contractors to spend billions of dollars...

The Green Guide for Health Care’s report, “A Prescriptive Path to Energy Efficiency Improvements for Hospitals,” is a peer-reviewed methodology for hospitals greater than 70,000 square feet to achieve a 14% energy efficiency improvement over ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2004 in all U.S. climate zones. Compliance with this methodology is designed to qualify projects to earn two points through...

, a rapidly growing architecture and construction services firm based in Irvine, California, has received an award from the Design-Build Institute of America, a national construction industry organization based in Washington, D.C. gkkworks was the architect and construction manager for the Linear Accelerator Project at the Beverly Lewis Cancer Care Center of Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center in...

Constructing a replacement hospital next to an existing facility brings with it a number of difficult issues: vibration and noise control, maintaining operations in the adjacent building, and the rerouting and directing of patients, visitors, and staff. But attempting to handle all of these issues while dealing with the stringent codes and regulations of the state of California and keeping a 450,000-square-foot...

 announced the expansion of its architectureand building divisions with the hiring of five senior level staffers. These key additions will help the company meet the increasing demands of its fast-expanding client base. Each of the new hires brings decades of experience to the ETC team. The hires include: David E. Keiser, AIA, ACHA, EDAC, Healthcare ArchitectKeiser is a registered architect...